PHIL 2501 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Cartesian Doubt, Experience Machine, Descriptive Knowledge

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2501
• Professor: Nalini E Ramlakhan

Document Summary

Prerequisite for possessing knowledge you must have a belief in that knowledge. We need justification for knowledge of true belief. Instrumental value means to an end, use something to get to what we wanted. Truth v truth truth(conventional truth) is knowledge that is distorted by senses, t can only have once the soul(mind) separates from the body(objective truth/true knowledge) Nozick asks us to imagine a machine that could give us whatever desirable or pleasurable experiences we could want. Psychologists have figured out a way to stimulate a person"s brain to induce pleasurable experiences that the subject could not distinguish from those he would have apart from the machine. Mind-dependent needs a mind to perceive it (the taste) (taste,colour. Skepticism in everyday discourse v. philosophical skepticism. Epistemological skepticism all types of knowledge is unattainable. Our senses deceive us there"s (cid:374)o (cid:449)a(cid:455) of k(cid:374)o(cid:449)i(cid:374)g e(cid:454)ter(cid:374)al realit(cid:455) We can learn about the world via our senses.